The Holocaust and the Christian world : reflections on the past, challenges for the future / edited by Carol Rittner, Stephen D. Smith, and Irena Steinfeldt ; consulting editor, Yehuda Bauer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Studies in Judaism and ChristianityPublication details: New York, Paulist Press, c2019.Edition: Second editionDescription: xix, 377 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780809153640
  • 9780809153640
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Holocaust and the Christian worldDDC classification:
  • 940.5315 R518h 2019
LOC classification:
  • BM535 .H615 2019
Contents:
PART ONE CONFRONTING THE HOLOCAUST -- A Christian Passes through Yad Vashem / Michael McGarry -- What Does the Holocaust Have to Do with Christianity? / John K. Roth -- Hard Questions Asked by the Holocaust / David A. Rausch -- PART TWO CHRONOLOGY / Carol Rittner, Stephen D. Smith, Irena Steinfeldt -- PART THREE ANTISEMITISM -- Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life in Europe -- What Is Antisemitism? / Carol Rittner, John K. Roth -- Table of Canonical Law and Nazi Anti-Jewish Measures -- Indifference to the Plight of the Jews during the Holocaust / Carol Rittner, John K. Roth -- PART FOUR THE CHURCHES AND NAZI PERSECUTION -- The German Churches in the Third Reich / Franklin H. Littell -- Collusion, Resistance, Silence: Protestants and the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen -- The Role of the Churches: Compliance and Confrontation / Victoria J. Barnett -- The Response of the German Catholic Church to National Socialism / Michael Phayer -- Biography: Ludwig Muller --^Biography: Martin Niemoller -- Responses Outside the Mainstream Catholic and Protestant Traditions / Christine King -- A Mosaic of Victims: What about Non-Jewish Victims of the Nazis? / Michael Berenbaum -- PART FIVE THE REACTION OF THE CHURCHES IN NAZI-OCCUPIED EUROPE -- The Catholic Church in Poland and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 / Dariusz Libionka -- The Response of the Polish Church to the Holocaust / John T. Pawlikowski -- The Catholic Hierarchy in France during the War and the Persecution of the Jews / Renee Bedarida -- Biography: Leon Berard -- French Protestant Churches and the Persecution of the Jews in France / Michael R. Marrus -- Biography: Jules-Gerard Saliege -- The Dutch Protestants, the Third Reich, and the Persecution of the Jews / Ger van Roon -- Denmark and the Holocaust / Carol Rittner -- Bulgaria and the Holocaust / Edward McGlynn Gaffney Jr. -- The Churches and the Deportation of Jews in Slovakia / Livia Rothkirchen --^The Christian Churches and the Persecution of the Jews in the Occupied Territories of the USSR / Yitzhak Arad -- Biography: Andrei Szeptyckyj -- Biography: Jozef Tiso -- Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Evil: Difficult Questions on the Perpetrators / Dan Bar-On -- "In the Interest of Maintaining Military Discipline": The Massacre of Children in Byelaya Tserkov, Military Chaplains, and the Wehrmacht / Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, Volker Riess --
PART SIX THE VATICAN, THE POPE, AND THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS -- Understanding the Vatican during the Nazi Period / Michael R. Marrus -- Who Was Pius XII? / Eugene J. Fisher -- Pius XII and the Holocaust / Jonathan Gorsky -- The Vatican and the Holocaust / John T. Pawlikowski -- The Case of Pius XII: Christians and Jews in Confrontation / Albert H. Friedlander -- Document: Humani Generis Unitas -- PART SEVEN THE CHALLENGE OF THE EXCEPTION -- A Glimmer of Light / Nechama Tec -- The Memory of Goodness / Eva Fleischner -- Rescuers: Their Motives and Morals / David P. Gushee -- Biography: Metropolitan Chrysostomos -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon -- Biography: Monsignor Angelo Rotta -- Biography: Sister Margit Slachta -- Biography: Antonina Siwek -- Biography: Mother Maria Skobtsova -- The Zegota Organization -- Biography: Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom -- The Righteous Among the Nations -- PART EIGHT AFTER THE HOLOCAUST: HOW HAVE CHRISTIANS RESPONDED? --^After the Shoah: Christian Statements of Contrition / Peggy Obrecht -- How Have the Churches Responded to the Holocaust? / Eugene J. Fisher -- Protestant Responses to the Holocaust / Stephen R. Haynes -- PART NINE ACTIVITIES -- In Search of Tikkun / Marcia Sachs Littell -- Challenges for Theological Training / Isabel Wollaston -- Holocaust Education in American Catholic Colleges and Universities / Michael Phayer, Carol Rittner -- Journey to Poland: Remembrance and Reconciliation, A Personal Reflection.. / Margaret Shepherd -- Where Memories Meet / Stephen D. Smith -- PART TEN ISSUES -- On Christian Mission to the Jews / Hubert G. Locke -- Christian Preaching after the Holocaust: Only Good Things Can Follow / Harry James Cargas -- Encountering the New Testament / Gareth Lloyd Jones -- Reading New Testament Texts / Jane Clements -- Flashpoints of Catholic-Jewish Relations / A. James Rudin -- The Canonization of Pius XII / John T. Pawlikowski --^Edith Stein's Canonization: Acknowledging Objections from Jews and Catholics / Eloise Rosenblatt -- The Dilemma of Forgiveness / Alice L. Eckardt -- Christians in a World of Genocide / Franklin H. Littell -- Is There a Future for Christianity? / Stephen D. Smith - Afterword -- For Further Study -- Documents Related to Church Issues during the Holocaust -- Post-Holocaust Statements from the Churches
Summary: The Holocaust and the Christian World is a gripping book in which Christian and Jewish scholars present essays that detail the world's descent into the madness of anti-Semitism. Exploring the harmful effects of scholarly treatments of Scripture (minimizing or mythologizing the Jewish character of the Old Testament), Darwinian views of "the races," and Hitler's ghastly plans for the "Final Solution" (with widespread Christian silence), these essays give a brilliant overview while adding thoughtful detail. The book includes timelines, resource lists, and church statements regarding the Holocaust and is also packed with many archival photographs. This new edition of the book also includes documentation of more recent efforts to repent and to change the teaching of contempt within various Christian churches. -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE CONFRONTING THE HOLOCAUST -- A Christian Passes through Yad Vashem / Michael McGarry -- What Does the Holocaust Have to Do with Christianity? / John K. Roth -- Hard Questions Asked by the Holocaust / David A. Rausch -- PART TWO CHRONOLOGY / Carol Rittner, Stephen D. Smith, Irena Steinfeldt -- PART THREE ANTISEMITISM -- Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life in Europe -- What Is Antisemitism? / Carol Rittner, John K. Roth -- Table of Canonical Law and Nazi Anti-Jewish Measures -- Indifference to the Plight of the Jews during the Holocaust / Carol Rittner, John K. Roth -- PART FOUR THE CHURCHES AND NAZI PERSECUTION -- The German Churches in the Third Reich / Franklin H. Littell -- Collusion, Resistance, Silence: Protestants and the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen -- The Role of the Churches: Compliance and Confrontation / Victoria J. Barnett -- The Response of the German Catholic Church to National Socialism / Michael Phayer -- Biography: Ludwig Muller --^Biography: Martin Niemoller -- Responses Outside the Mainstream Catholic and Protestant Traditions / Christine King -- A Mosaic of Victims: What about Non-Jewish Victims of the Nazis? / Michael Berenbaum -- PART FIVE THE REACTION OF THE CHURCHES IN NAZI-OCCUPIED EUROPE -- The Catholic Church in Poland and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 / Dariusz Libionka -- The Response of the Polish Church to the Holocaust / John T. Pawlikowski -- The Catholic Hierarchy in France during the War and the Persecution of the Jews / Renee Bedarida -- Biography: Leon Berard -- French Protestant Churches and the Persecution of the Jews in France / Michael R. Marrus -- Biography: Jules-Gerard Saliege -- The Dutch Protestants, the Third Reich, and the Persecution of the Jews / Ger van Roon -- Denmark and the Holocaust / Carol Rittner -- Bulgaria and the Holocaust / Edward McGlynn Gaffney Jr. -- The Churches and the Deportation of Jews in Slovakia / Livia Rothkirchen --^The Christian Churches and the Persecution of the Jews in the Occupied Territories of the USSR / Yitzhak Arad -- Biography: Andrei Szeptyckyj -- Biography: Jozef Tiso -- Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Evil: Difficult Questions on the Perpetrators / Dan Bar-On -- "In the Interest of Maintaining Military Discipline": The Massacre of Children in Byelaya Tserkov, Military Chaplains, and the Wehrmacht / Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, Volker Riess --

PART SIX THE VATICAN, THE POPE, AND THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS -- Understanding the Vatican during the Nazi Period / Michael R. Marrus -- Who Was Pius XII? / Eugene J. Fisher -- Pius XII and the Holocaust / Jonathan Gorsky -- The Vatican and the Holocaust / John T. Pawlikowski -- The Case of Pius XII: Christians and Jews in Confrontation / Albert H. Friedlander -- Document: Humani Generis Unitas -- PART SEVEN THE CHALLENGE OF THE EXCEPTION -- A Glimmer of Light / Nechama Tec -- The Memory of Goodness / Eva Fleischner -- Rescuers: Their Motives and Morals / David P. Gushee -- Biography: Metropolitan Chrysostomos -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon -- Biography: Monsignor Angelo Rotta -- Biography: Sister Margit Slachta -- Biography: Antonina Siwek -- Biography: Mother Maria Skobtsova -- The Zegota Organization -- Biography: Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom -- The Righteous Among the Nations -- PART EIGHT AFTER THE HOLOCAUST: HOW HAVE CHRISTIANS RESPONDED? --^After the Shoah: Christian Statements of Contrition / Peggy Obrecht -- How Have the Churches Responded to the Holocaust? / Eugene J. Fisher -- Protestant Responses to the Holocaust / Stephen R. Haynes -- PART NINE ACTIVITIES -- In Search of Tikkun / Marcia Sachs Littell -- Challenges for Theological Training / Isabel Wollaston -- Holocaust Education in American Catholic Colleges and Universities / Michael Phayer, Carol Rittner -- Journey to Poland: Remembrance and Reconciliation, A Personal Reflection.. / Margaret Shepherd -- Where Memories Meet / Stephen D. Smith -- PART TEN ISSUES -- On Christian Mission to the Jews / Hubert G. Locke -- Christian Preaching after the Holocaust: Only Good Things Can Follow / Harry James Cargas -- Encountering the New Testament / Gareth Lloyd Jones -- Reading New Testament Texts / Jane Clements -- Flashpoints of Catholic-Jewish Relations / A. James Rudin -- The Canonization of Pius XII / John T. Pawlikowski --^Edith Stein's Canonization: Acknowledging Objections from Jews and Catholics / Eloise Rosenblatt -- The Dilemma of Forgiveness / Alice L. Eckardt -- Christians in a World of Genocide / Franklin H. Littell -- Is There a Future for Christianity? / Stephen D. Smith - Afterword -- For Further Study -- Documents Related to Church Issues during the Holocaust -- Post-Holocaust Statements from the Churches

The Holocaust and the Christian World is a gripping book in which Christian and Jewish scholars present essays that detail the world's descent into the madness of anti-Semitism. Exploring the harmful effects of scholarly treatments of Scripture (minimizing or mythologizing the Jewish character of the Old Testament), Darwinian views of "the races," and Hitler's ghastly plans for the "Final Solution" (with widespread Christian silence), these essays give a brilliant overview while adding thoughtful detail. The book includes timelines, resource lists, and church statements regarding the Holocaust and is also packed with many archival photographs. This new edition of the book also includes documentation of more recent efforts to repent and to change the teaching of contempt within various Christian churches. -- Provided by publisher.

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